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Show CORNER. CHILDRENS TIMELY TOPICS FOR OUR BOYS AND GIRLS. r Littl. Laghlii bb Burs tli Kitty's Party 1 II IT Telling the Truth Hot lire's Trars lathstla Story of HrruUui on tha Part of a Boy. IKE a tiny glint of piercing through the diu-l- y gloom light Conn S r.tllfl i.'.T face the through shadows of laughing my room. And my pen for- gets Its way as It hears her pattring tread, "tile her prattling treble tones chase the thoughts from out my head. he is queen and I her slave, one who loves her and obeys. For she rules liPr world of home with Imperious baby ways. In the dances, calls me Dear! turns the pages of iny books, Thrones herself upon my knee, takes my pen with laughing looks. Makes disorder reign supreme, turns my papers upside down, . Draws me cabalistic signs, safe from fear of any frown. Crumbles all my verses up. pleased to hear the crackling sound. Makes them into ball:; and then flings them all upon the ground. ! Suddenly she flits away, leaving me alone again fith a warmth about my heart, and a brighter, clearer brain. nd It chances, as I write, I may take a crumpled sheet, On the which, God knoweth why! read my fancies twice as sweet. Victor Hugo. ill and in great neeu. Hr. tstren, wita Christian liberality, had supplied his wants, sud now the dying man told him he had sent for him, not to speak about religion, for he didn't believe In it, but to thank Mr. Birch for h!s great kindness to him and his. Mr. Birch then said: Will you answer me one question? Yes," said the dying man, p'rovld-e- d It is not about religion. Lifting bis heart in prayer to God, You know I have to Mr. Bireh said: many will tv gathpreaeh ered to hear mostly poor people, who will soon have, like you, to face death; I ask you what shall I preach about? Silence for awblle; then, with eye and trembling voice, the unexpected answer was given; Mr. Birch, preach Christ to them; preach And then, utterly broken Christ. down, the dying sinner sought mercy from God for his own soul. tear-dlmm- I Commenting on The Bible ays: who both can and tn rough a danger, leu face 1L this, the Occident tells us of a friend will carry us safely never leaving us a -- A Freak ! Hats A rich man of Cleveland, 0., a few days ago gave a chestnut party. Chestnut parties are quite the rage Just now, ays the Plain Dealer of that city. They are easily planned and carried out. About the only necessity Is chestnuts. Thats where the rich man tumbled. The chestnut supply at tbs point he had selected for the party was scarce. There was asplandld tree, but Its crop was light. Wealth is the trua father of expedients. The rich man bought a generous supply of chestnuts and sent them out to be carefully scattered beneath the tree. When the party arrived at the nutting ground, lo! the tree had been shaken and there on the ground lay the remarkably generous supply of nuts. The business of gathering them went merrily forward, when, all of a sudden, one of the older piembers of the party, picked up a fallen leaf and looked at It auspiciously. Then she glanced up at the tree above her. Isn't it strange, she said. Isnt what strange? asked the rich man. That all these chestnuts should grow on an oak tree. And It was an oak sure enough. ! j ! Whir the Color Como Few people even artists themselves Kr-im- With . wind came the ardeut Bummer hour. cherished buds bursi into flower. reviling roses drank tbe dew; long and skies were days blue And Fortune bade our dreams come true. i Leu When When When vxt-r- And next the days of autumn sent The dignity of calm content. And frosiy timings touched the wood. And nature, atood Garbed In a glory vast and good. And last of all comes tbe caress. The slumber touch of wearineus; And to his couch of sheltering snows With duty done, the old world goes And smiles that he shall find repose. Washington Star. says English Frissts and the Beretta. Ought Anglican priests to wear the beretta? This, In the absence of greater problems, is the momentous question agitating the minds of a good many churchmen just now. It Is contended, on the one hand, that the old English r, square cap is the correct clerical while on the other the beretta has the advantage of sanction in the western church, and, moreover, can be conveniently folded up aud carried In the pocket. Meanwhile, the controversy rages, and one popular divine has found himself in somewhat of a dilemma over 1L Asked to preach at a village church, he was informed on his arrival there was to be a procession from the veslry through the churchyard to the eastern door. It is raining heavily, he pleaded, and I have to return to town The vicar was absent, but tlie curate In charge of the service Shall I get you a beretta? asked: No, was the prompt reply, but If you have an old umbrella about the place I shall be glad o London Tele graph. Post-Dispatc- h. from tha Gallows. Ueuisrksbla a Some years ago butler, it was murdered his mistress at Newton Abbott, South Devon, England. The man was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to death. In due time the :ope was placed round his neck, and, i very thing ready, the executioner pulled the bolt, his victim disappearir, ng into the pit below. The rope, snapped under the weight of the sondeinned man, and he lay at the little the worse for his fall. A tew rope was procured and the same iroceedings gone through. It seeems but it is a fact, that the rope iroke a second time. The unfortunate nan was by this time very much Inured. The prison officials decided to et the matter stand over for a time, that Providence was emarking Meanwhile the igainst them. man, still declaring his lnno-kne-e, was removed to the prison l. What Is still more remarkable s tbe fact that a few days after the ibortlve execution a man confessed to laving committed the crime for which he butler was found guilty and In due line the confessed murderer was tried .nd sentenced to death. On his recovery the unfortunate butler was reeased. - head-gea- al-,eg- how-!vc- bot-;o- con-Icinn- aouth And every dell and every glade Echoed the melodies he made. he Is a gentleman. If you are unlucky enough to be arrested on suspicion. Just say you are a gentleman and not guilty. Never mind bringing any witnesses to prove your identity. It is quite unnecessary. The St. Louis police officer is your only Chesterfleldian copper. He will take your unsupported word and apologize for suspecting you. St. Louis F.- tbe madrigals strajed; A cry raised at a child- called at headquarters since, rens cntertalnmenL Amidst the con- hi:ce he Is police still at large. And later a and terror lad sat quietly In in the week ancihcr fusion gentleman was ar-- ii his nlace. with a smaller child In his sled who was caught in the act of arms. When the danger was passed, a counterfeit dollar on a street he was asked, Why did you not try parsing :ar conductor. But he said he was a to escape like the others? and the and got the bogus dollar at beautiful answer came, I couldnt car- gentleman the exposition, and of course that was ry baby through the crowd, and I quite satisfactory. It is dead wrong to couldn't leave him hes my brother. luck up on suspicion anyone who ! -i:' A ll'ujcrapny. i be world awoke in gusty spring iu bear the song bird carrolling. Tbe us ed Mol her' Tears. When Cyrus Hamlin was a small boy he had seven rents given him by his mother to celebrate musterday. The money was for gingerbread, linns, etc. "Fcrh a pa. Cyrus, said she. you will or two into the missionary put a ci contribu .on box at Mrs. Farrar's. As be trudgt-- alnr.g lie begun to ask. shall I drop in one cent or two? I wish aim had not raid ii'.ie or two." He decide. on two. Then ciin.ul mre said, What, fixe ciuis for your r five stomach aid two for i.Iir for gir.yei bread Mil two lor .iui.Is!" So he a I Mil fuiir fit ginci i three for souli-- . Hut pus-ntlhe felt it must lie three for gi rhrc.id and four for Kotiis. When l.e ram to t: buv lie d' imped in the whole seven. ;.x have r.o more bother about it. When he went borne, hungry as a bear, lie explained to his mother his unioasonuhle hunger; and, smiling through terns, she gave him a royal bowl of bread and milk. And he pathetically asks, "What was the meaning of mother's tears? St. lamin'! Arruiuodating fullrg. fei. i.uu.b puuce are probably the most accommodating gentlemen that ever lived. On Monday Mr. Paul ilemus, of Butler, Pa., shot a negro In Center alley. He was arrested, and he told an official at central station that minister, and try to understand what it was all a mistake. It Is not courtehe says, for he is speaking to you as ous to doubt a gentleman's word, and well as to grown-u- p people. He la his explanation was accepted. He was telling about the Lord Jesus, who loves released with an apology for his arrest the little ones. Afterward it developed that Mr. He-mhad prevaricated when he said he Trua Love, had not shot the negro, but he bus not of lire was m on mo woo Kept ner em seemed iu bear ana unaerstand every word 1 said. She was a great help to me. Think of that, little ones, and when you go to church, fix your eyes on the cd An Ciripnlnl Greeting. The gentle Elsie sat drearily In the gloaming In the front room. She was very miserable, for on the previous Kilty's lurly. night she had had words with her own, Gladys and Nina had been planning and now she fears her haughty Harfor some time to give Trot, their kitty, old will not call. She hears a step, a a birthday party when she should be ring, a voice she knows, and some one BOLD SAILOR GIRLS THEY. one year old. peaking to the servants in the halL When Trot was first given to them She will not wait until a light Is Five Young XV omen Vojaga from Hon he was Just a little kitten, but kittens brought, but gently calls Come In!" Scotia to Hnr York. grow so fast that now, much to the sorTbe visitor enters and, with a sigh of PERSONALS. Five romping, girls row of the girls, she wan quite a staid wwfnl volume, the fair Elsie caets heritepped ashore yesterday from the trim n and cat But they loved her Russell Sage Is said to control more self into his arms and softly murmurs: Nova Scotia schooner Florence R. Just as much as ever. cash than any other man In X), my darling, I am glad you hare ready Hewson, from Shnlee, N. S. The quinWho shall we invite to kittys come! I have so wanted to make it up America. tet are daughters of Nova Scotian lumAnd he of the embrace resettle. and party? they began to ask each other, Dr. the exTransvaal Leyds puts ber merchants, and they made the voymiss. Its very nice marked: somewhat anxiously, a day or two beWell, penses due to Dr. Jaineaons Incursion age on the Hewson through gales, fogs of you, and Im very glad, too, that fore the date of her birthday. at 9840,000. and rain squalls, under the care of It Louise's kitty had run away and going to settle up at last Mayor Houghton, of North Adams, youre Captain William Patterson, who has collector. was Momenta. the Spare gas Badnt been seen for days; Helen had also promised the girls parents to take, Mass., has given his 11,000 salary to only a dog, which wouldnt do at all, them safely back to Shulee. Miss Ella the local hospital All the Comforts of Homo. and really there seemed to be no reIt isnt unusual for the Duke of Jimamlth "Hello, Johnbrown! How 30 years old, as she who Seaman, is spectacle cats to invite. Here was a confessed at the barge office, acted as Westministers charity bill to amount do you prosper now that your family great predicament. The morning of to 8100,000 a year. is away for the summer? Pretty lone:haperon for the party. Her companthe birthday arrived, and as Gladys Mr. Selous, the African traveler and some and ions were Misses Nellie Purdy, 19; Elisunsettled, eh? and Xinu dressed they discussed the Stanbas some Idea of visiting the abeth Elisabeth explorer, Johnbrown Not a bit of It; getting Gillespie, 17; sltuaMon. Rocky Mountains. ford, 16. and Emily Christie, 14 years along finely." Ye mu:t And somebody to invite Messrs. Moody and Sankey are to old. On the voyage they occupied stateThats queer; I should suppose that this very morning, Gladys announced, a series of revival services In you would feel the loss of rooms opening from the Hewson's cozy begin your accusas she pilled on a shoe. She meant Cincinnati on March 5. The little schooner cartomed surroundings. some cat, you know. ried a heavy cargo, anil her deckload The Empress of Russia was very So I would, my boy, if I hadnt Of course we must, answered Nina. was piled so high there was barely popular with the Parisians during hei dropped into just the boarding house I It wouldnt be any party at all wlth-u- t room to swing the booms. She ran to did. You see, the landlady Ib a visit the French capital. particsome cat else at It. Tetliljr" In Ihi Pound. into a couple of westerly gales before Miss Nellie Patterson, ML Carmel, ular body and she calls me down every cur a seven more than For years all through breakfast, Somehow, time I miss my meals or stay out late. of she reached Nantucket, and the waves CL, has completed a ap!apa aud mamma looked very myster- dog has walked about the grounds at times washed clear over her. The prenticeship to the machinist's trade. Then the young woman In the room seemed ious and occasionally nodded and Bellevue hospital, and nobody Nova Scotia girls proved good across the hall has a spunky pair of plucky Verdi is work at on Wednesan him. to to attention to oratorio were pay any smiled at each other, but the girls sailors, however, and, far from being keep himself busy. He denies that he twins who do their yelling between 9 so busy planning for the birthday day the Society for the Prevention of nnd 12 every night, so that I can go to seasick, they developed appetites that has any intention of writing an animal the carted to Animals Cruelty opera. party that they did not notice It first the cook the afar day kept busy conMr. Gladstone Is disappointed at tha sleep with the UBiial accompaniment Immediately after breakfast papa away, and suddenly every one out. In the handling of the vessel they small sale of his decided that edition of Bishop But- Talk about all the comforts of home. went to the shed and called the girls. nected with the institution 1 wouldn't leave also evinced the llevliest sort of Interthat boarding house 2,000 be valuable. must ler, the only folcopies dog having been sold. to They ran out at once and mamma on deck even be to and desire their est, go to the beBt hotel in town aa the was The Until a year ago the animal Aberavon coun-ctown (English) lowed them and what do you supil was howling loudof ihe proprietor. Buffalo Exknown simply as the Cur. But then when the tempest unanimously elected as mayor Mr. guest pose? he for est heart; the wrung press. skippers him christened an attendant Teddy who Is blind! Richards, Henry There, in Trot's box, cuddled close up totally knew that if one of bis fair charges Roosevelt, and the name has clung to was to her, were five little baby kittens! chance of resthe overboard swept him. Urt llrllbih Families. cue was slight indeed. Through storms new York .Man Had a Flee la HI Ear. went out in Twenty-sixt- h Teddy" The case whiuu recently came before and calms, however, the Hcwbou came It Is a very painful thing to have a Slia Knew tha Blffersure. street and It was then that he was :he Harlesdeu England) magistrate, down the sailed she and flea in ear. one's unscathed, A small who of a but very whore a woman stated that little girl The story is tolJ nabbed. It was not ten minutes beshe had active flea crept Into the ear of Adolcame to the conclusion not long ago fore a subscription list was going the Sound and through Ilell Gate yestertevvnty-seve- u children had (of even of whom, loss the without of day phus Doncourt, morning Flushing, L. L, the that she wanted a bicycle. She had rounds. Deputy Superintendent Rick-art- s ..y the way, only three are living), has Scotian Nova a The girls other and yarn. rope drove almost day, him to mother her '.razy always been taught by started it, and soon enough money declared r.dmed a writer to hunt up some recthey had learned more about before It could be dislodged. Ita tiny pray for what she wanted, and for two was secured to get Teddy out of the -, of large families. Iu the liar-!ii;t-n ords beever knew kicks and struggles sounded to him or three nights in succession there pound and buy a license for him. New navigation than they book manuscript. in the British a and like log fore, they hare kept blows, and made was a good deal about wheels in her York World. nn extraordinary entry has been Hewson's of the is the wonder that Doncourt shriek mothwith pain. When wa' supplleatlons. So her father and and concerning a certain weaver in escorted officers. Captain Patterson ter was doused into the ear the flea er put their heads together to try and How tha Katydid Sings. who bad issue by one wife .:rtland. to women the office, the became more active. After an barge young arrange to have the prayers of the lit. ;tch woman) of no fewer than slxty-.i- s Everybody Is familiar with the rasp- whore their declarations concerning only hours work the flea was finally distle miss answered. After a long dis- ing notes known as The katydid's children. Mention may be made llxeir baggage were taken in due form. lodged by a hooked syringe and plencussion they agrecil that a tricycle U It ia the male only that Bong. an inscription on a tomb In Con-xi- y friends. visit to went Then of hot uptown water. they ty would be more suitable and less dan- sounds, and he docs it in a most (Engi-mdHere ehnrchyard: When Immigrant Commissioner Benn of emitting the gerous for one of her age, as well as of Nicholas I locker, of the n;h body Nova the of of ner learned the landing less expensive. A tricycle was accord- lar manner. His vocal organs are at Tbs Folly of I'nbrllcf. "i r. way, gentleman, who was the forty-firScotia quintet he expressed the opinnT his father, William Hock--o- r. ingly purchased, aud the little girl the base of his wings, and consist oi ion that of the prevailing and abidview In should have passed they found it waiting for her oue moruiug two flat excrescence of thin dry memHim of his wife, and the father of whose in love hands by all Alio, Ellis Island. and ho Intimated ing when she got up. She seemed the least brane. It is the rubbing of these two through on children: IC37. in wci;y-seveheaven and is earth power be lodged looked and case into would the bit disappointed when she saw It, but membranous plates together which that what a folly seems our unbelief! And n search mode for the girls. John C. Most of the day was said nothing. If your shoulder the song produces 0f the schooner, at 74 xvlint a sin anil shame our worry. Wc kK.ltllAB v. heeling about near the house, I.. I.. ( In spent have but the duty of the present, the riifip I'araii but win'll it was time for her to go to morrow is for the Fathour provision The good results of the use of elec-bed at ni.:'it her fond parents were er's care. And because He rarer, and tricity for railroad purposes aru seenj somewhat hiartlcd nnd shocked to hear xviVis that we should have the help that j In ilic circumstance that a fare of S her h n her prater as follows: Oh, rover fails llis trussing children in cents he. a cm the ferries on the Erook-Ea:- ;i ' a each o:k'T wiji ! c.i'i.-Lord, don't you know the difference lh m ;iuir hour of iv d wo can put our lyn side of the river and the o between a bicjc'.o and a tricycle? whole strength in;n the moment' rasping soiud, you rn".M i ;:x r vo th of Jamaica has lately been riiorl very nicely. .ire orl:. assured that the nnrrow's task Not only so, but by tbe syskatjdid's nnd-apure c'.iLhlici. n.i I ll.i' Me ii xvi.'I r.evcr Ie nlhv.x Cil to pars beyond tem of transfers in Ti'lling I lie Truth. Republic. o ap.u:: xu?. general use in charge cf t!,-- !r two IJ.-the morrow's renal:!. trom ih- Young The took the tri; far th- - iv'i':. "1' Hrooklxi, one ran pa from Cuney They i an t:celieni illuslida.itl or Fort Hamilton to Jamaica Ilrlplujt th cad to visit fric:: Is !n Hi's eisy, who People's IV'.'' r. I::-of for the same moitesi outlay. This la F.ipenMvr Hilmity. loser of truth iu the "One thing helped me very much iic now cnicrtain'.ug ihcin. They will tration ' of nearly twenty miles, or while I was preaching a said a remain l:cre for ten days or so. until distance 'blase moment of death: T is what Uncle Simon, Mr. U i eh, Jn English evangelist, clergyman. the Hewson Is ready to star back. j at the rate of about a quarter of a cant "It lb when a fellow gets so What was that? Inquired a friend. Now York Journal. that nothing but a steamboat a mile. tells of a dying Infidel whom he visited t Tha man had lone bean w It was the attention of urn. iri txplosion will make him laugh. full-grow- know where the colors used Iu the arts come from. It Is an Interesting fact that one small paint bo!f will often represent the four quarters of the globe, and all sorts of materials, animal, vegetable and mineral. The cochineal insect supplies the carmines and rich crimson, scarlet and purple lakea Sepia Is the Inky fluid discharged by the devilish cuttle fish. Indian yellow Is from urine of the camel and Ivory black and bone black from Ivory chips. Prussian blue Is mads by fusing horses hoofs and other refuse matter with Impure potassium carbonate, an accidental discovery. Blue black Is from the charcoal of the Turkey red Is derived from the madder plant of Hlndostan. Gamboge Is a yellow sap of a tree, which the people of Slam catch in cocoanut sheila Raw sienna ia the natural earth from Sienna, Italy. When burned It Is Burnt Sienna. Amber Is from UmbrU. India Ink is burnt camphor. Bistre Is the soot of wood ashea Of real ultramarine there la little in the market, as it Is made from the precious lapis laxull, and commands a big price. Chinese white Is zinc, scarlet is Iodide of mercury and native vermilion comes from quicksilver ore. rosy-cheek- hos-lita- ed vine-stal- k. after-cabi- n. four-yea- rs I Matt-u- sledge-hamm- er rn, pecul-cnpuh- le i well-know- st cl-i- n ft. . I ! e po-.-- vil-l.- : vstab-liMie- l St. . - f.il.o-Ainf- - ." lour-iplrit-ed ! 1! d. |